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Picture postcard, a tinted black and white photograph, shows the main building at St. John's University beyond a footbridge over a bay of Lake Sagatagan.

Picture postcard, 1910, is a tinted black-and-white photo of a group of young men leaning on the rail of a footbridge near Lake Sagatagan.

Picture postcard with border resembling peeling birch bark. Divided back, published 1907.

Leather postcard with undivided back, postmarked 1907. Front is a line drawing of the Quadrangle at St. John's University.

Undated photo of Father Hofmann with students, posed in Saint John's photo studio

Boys in the shoe shop. Half of each boy's day was devoted to academics, and half to apprenticing in "industrial" trades such as the tailor and shoe shop, gardening and farming, and cooking.

A catalog for both the Saint John's and Saint Benedict's boarding schools as well as the mission school in White Earth.

Boys in uniform from Saint John’s Industrial School for Native Americans and Fathers Isidore Siegler, Benno Ferstl, and Roman Homar. The Indian Industrial School was established with the hope that the Chippewa Indian boys from White Earth, Minnesota…

A posed photo of an Indian boys' team in Collegeville, Minnesota. The 1888 catalog of the Industrial School lists two baseball clubs, "Nin Songideeminanig B.B.C." and "The Little Fellows B.B.C.".

A catalog of the Indian Industrial School at Saint John's. The introduction states "The object of St. John's Industrial School is what the name implies. The pupils are in the hands of efficient teachers and of practical craftsmen, whose endeavor it…